GTA IV may hurt hardcore gaming more than help (hypothetical, not bashing).

[LordTheNightKnight]

TheRealMafoo said:
The OP is about game budgets, and not GTA4.

As far as game budgets go, I think the market can now handle it. The gaming industry has grown to a point where we have enough people to support a 100 million dollar game.

I know you have not played GTA4, but if you had, you would realize where the budget went, and I would say most of it was do to the level of detail put into a sandbox world. A game like Gears of War 2 does not need that level of detail, and thus would never be expected to cost that much in order to produce the same level of production quality.

I think the industry is growing at a respectable clip. In 10 years, we could see 500 million dollar games, and all I can say is I hope I am here to play them :)

Did I state the money wasn't well spent? I know dam well they spent that money on getting Liberty City to be the best GTA city yet.

 

""GTA IV is thát good, that it's a threat to the PS360!""

I did not write it was a threat to those systems. I wrote that the threat was developers letting budgets go out of control, and then dumbing down the games instead of spending smarter.

So you didn't really unsderstand my point, as it was not negativity about GTA IV. It's negativity about stupidity.